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15269 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T17:27:26.453 | 0 | 213 | <p>I upgraded to Maverick and now I never get the password dialog that 10.04 had for installing packages - it just NOOPs from the GUI. Ran update-manager with user privileges from terminal and no error output.</p>
<p>I understand that 10.10 now uses APT. Is there a simple fix in the policy mods to enable requesting c... | 6622 | null | null | 2017-03-12T17:31:10.057 | update-manager doesn't request PW - just NOOPs | [
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15270 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T18:40:05.967 | 4 | 771 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13065/how-do-i-fix-the-gpg-error-no-pubkey-without-terminal">How do I fix the GPG error “NO_PUBKEY” without terminal?</a> </p>
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15274 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T19:17:31.807 | 1 | 338 | <p>I have set up the chat and broadcast accounts: clicked on my user name on the panel and chose Chat accounts... and Broadcast accounts...
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15276 | 1 | 15288 | 2010-11-28T19:45:00.553 | 7 | 550 | <p>Whenever I try to do anything other view my Last.fm profile in Banshee, I am confronted with the following message at the bottom of the inteface:</p>
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15278 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T20:17:30.480 | 4 | 4120 | <p>please help me install webcam Genius iLook 300 v1.4 in ubuntu 10.04.
lsusb show this:</p>
<pre><code>Bus 003 Device 002: ID 093a:2628 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
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15280 | 1 | 15281 | 2010-11-28T20:44:01.747 | 10 | 7478 | <p>Is it possible to query (using the command line) what device a particular file or folder is on?</p>
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15283 | 1 | 15285 | 2010-11-28T21:46:41.213 | 20 | 252 | <p>I'm currently reviewing bus on Launchpad and the option to Triage them is greyed out for me. Is this because my Karma is not high enough (599 at time of writing) or is it because I'm not a part of the correct team (I'm working on papercuts).</p>
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15284 | 1 | 15333 | 2010-11-28T22:09:11.970 | 9 | 58560 | <p>Can't seem to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/92556/how-do-i-boot-into-a-root-shell">boot into root shell</a> in recovery mode from GRUB. I try booting into recovery mode from the GRUB menu and don't ever get a shell, just log messages from the kernel bootup. <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>-<kb... | 6645 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:38.560 | 2014-09-23T12:28:23.327 | How to boot to root shell when GRUB recovery menu fails to load a shell? | [
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15290 | 1 | 15293 | 2010-11-28T23:05:34.450 | 3 | 1840 | <p>Is it just to save disk space? Or does it affect loading time/performance in some way? You'd think that you'd want the best quality possible image for something you'll be looking at throughout the day.</p>
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15294 | 1 | 15295 | 2010-11-28T23:25:41.603 | 26 | 1704 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> as of 02-04-14. Canonical has announced that they will be shutting down the ubuntu one service, and in the process, will make the server side application open source as well, as detailed in their <a href="http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-service... | null | 17722 | 2014-04-05T02:11:49.177 | 2015-08-11T15:35:30.440 | Why is the Ubuntu One server side application proprietary? | [
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15296 | 1 | 15611 | 2010-11-28T23:46:50.750 | 2 | 5444 | <p>I'm facing a problem with all the kernels installed at my system (Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit).</p>
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<p>The booting halted with the following error:</p>
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15299 | 1 | 15319 | 2010-11-29T00:40:01.450 | 2 | 1916 | <p>I'm having real issues reinstalling 10.04 to an SSD - I had one SSD fail, and have replaced it with a brand new one, but the 10.04 installer fails at beginning to write files to the disk with this error: </p>
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15301 | 1 | 15302 | 2010-11-29T01:14:20.267 | 2 | 429 | <p>I would like to use Gnome-Do's Docky but it requires me to enable either </p>
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15306 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T02:51:36.267 | 3 | 294 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6328/how-to-install-ubuntu">How to install Ubuntu?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Assuming I know nothing about linux, where do I go to download the installation files, and how do I go about installing it?</p>
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15311 | 1 | 332703 | 2010-11-29T03:39:46.683 | 9 | 15314 | <p>It seems like <code>xt</code> (xtraceroute) has been dropped from the repository, does anyone know of another graphical traceroute program in the main repos which draws maps? If not, then a loose deb package will do, or a PPA.</p>
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15312 | 1 | 15360 | 2010-11-29T03:42:04.110 | 9 | 36039 | <p>Is there any simple GUI way to make an SMB share persistent? I don't quite remember the steps, but on Windows, once you've mapped a share to a drive, you're given the option to 'reconnect on boot' (or something like that). </p>
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15314 | 1 | 15343 | 2010-11-29T04:01:43.833 | 81 | 98688 | <p>Which is a better platform for a professional use server?</p>
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15317 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T04:36:36.397 | 0 | 3969 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/197117/how-to-download-specific-ubuntu-drivers-for-my-pc">How to download specific ubuntu drivers for my pc</a> </p>
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<p>Where can I download drivers for Lenovo s10-3 to make it work in Ubuntu 10.xx?
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/is-there-a-way-to-remove-hide-old-kernel-versions">Is there a way to remove/hide old kernel versions?</a> </p>
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15327 | 1 | 15332 | 2010-11-29T08:33:48.923 | 2 | 2762 | <p>I have downloded the Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 ISO file. When I mount it on a Virtual drive it gives me the option to install it via CD(restart and boot from disc) or use the WUBI installer. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_%28Ubuntu_installer%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WUBI installer</a> warns about poo... | 6661 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:13.193 | 2011-05-12T12:46:05.100 | Install Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 without CD/USB/WUBI from HDD on WinXP | [
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15328 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T08:35:43.677 | 6 | 2110 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/109208/how-do-i-add-new-wallpapers">How do I add new wallpapers?</a> </p>
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15336 | 1 | 15341 | 2010-11-29T09:40:22.067 | 5 | 4242 | <p>Does anyone use Unity with an Intel GMA x4500 graphic card? Does it work?</p>
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15337 | 1 | 15338 | 2010-11-29T09:48:47.380 | 15 | 6311 | <p>Do we need actually swap partition on the ubuntu-server with LAMP?
I think I don't need it, but better to know for sure if it will not
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15340 | 1 | 15345 | 2010-11-29T10:05:59.987 | 5 | 5734 | <p>Is it possible to make <code>gnome-panel</code> span across the top of both screens (positioned side-by-side)?</p>
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15346 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T10:39:27.480 | 2 | 933 | <p>I've just upgraded to the LTS and now I can't watch any videos on Your Tube via Flash in either Firefox or Chrome.</p>
<p>I had the issue with Chrome before I upgraded, but I could still see them in Firefox without an issue and I figured the upgrade would fix this.</p>
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15348 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T11:01:08.033 | 2 | 1404 | <p>I have a Dell E6400 and have been using Ubuntu on this machine for just over a year. Previously I used 9.10 on 32bit. When I upgraded to use 10.04 I remained on 32bit and battery life seemed just fine. I changed to 64-bit and since then I get the "battery life is old" notification and the battery just doesnt last mo... | null | 3778 | 2010-11-29T11:11:48.153 | 2010-11-29T11:11:48.153 | Battery life greatly depreciated in 64-bit when compared to 32-bit | [
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15353 | 1 | 15412 | 2010-11-29T11:56:21.640 | 4 | 3409 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) installed on my notebook via wubi. Since a recent ubuntu update however my system doesn't work anymore. When I boot I get into <code>grub rescue></code>. After some internet reading I concluded that I would have to re-install grub (I was forgotten :$ that I installed Ubuntu via wu... | 6668 | 235 | 2010-11-29T14:08:42.613 | 2011-01-28T03:13:22.327 | Update destroyed grub | [
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15354 | 1 | 15356 | 2010-11-29T12:07:49.280 | 247 | 163439 | <p>In Nautilus, when you double click a file, it will open it with the default application associated with the file's extension. For instance, .html files will open in a web browser and .pdf will be opened with Document Viewer. Is there a way to reproduce the same behavior from within the command line (i.e. <code>open ... | 2331 | 147044 | 2014-06-21T18:37:20.353 | 2018-06-16T16:13:08.243 | How to open file with default application from command line? | [
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15358 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T12:37:59.330 | 12 | 12381 | <p>I'd prefer to have my communications centralised in Empathy. Is it possible to see my Skype contacts in Empathy and use voice, video or chat?</p>
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15361 | 1 | 15365 | 2010-11-29T13:18:53.537 | 3 | 2874 | <p>Hope this is not a stupid question. But here it goes...</p>
<p>Over the last month I have learned Programming in C and Gtk to a point where I have written a small program in C. </p>
<p>I would like to make a ubuntu package of my program. The project contains 3 glade files and 1 C file. I know that there is documen... | 3984 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:27.937 | 2010-12-01T05:28:21.233 | How make a configure/makefiles from an C file? | [
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15362 | 1 | 15374 | 2010-11-29T13:22:53.530 | 4 | 538 | <p>I'm looking to buy a ~10inch screen netbook that works with Ubuntu. That's probably the easy bit. There are dozens of good options available.</p>
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15377 | 1 | 15382 | 2010-11-29T15:06:19.997 | 4 | 4381 | <p>Is there an elegant way, other than messing with <code>/etc/rc?.d</code>, to control the daemon loading at boot time?</p>
<p>My personal concern is stopping <a href="http://nginx.org/" rel="nofollow">Nginx</a> from loading at boot, while setting <a href="http://www.lighttpd.net/" rel="nofollow">lighttpd</a> to do l... | 622 | null | null | 2010-11-29T16:25:41.247 | Loading daemon at startup | [
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15378 | 1 | 15381 | 2010-11-29T15:12:26.233 | 63 | 271565 | <p>I set up my Linux server to accept connections from my home PC by adding the public key generated by PuTTYgen to the <code>authorized_keys</code> file.</p>
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15379 | 1 | 15385 | 2010-11-29T15:21:57.143 | 3 | 624 | <p>I'm having a fun problem here, we have a 10.04 server running bacula with 2 SAS tape drives.
Last friday I had to unplug the tape drives a couple of times.
Today, the devices are "reversed" (nst0 is now nst1).</p>
<p>Is there a way to force the device name, so that nst0 is always assigned to the same drive?
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15380 | 1 | 15539 | 2010-11-29T16:13:54.070 | 6 | 13196 | <p>We just got a Xerox Workcentre 3220 in the office (yay nobody looked up linux compatibility when ordering), and the 3119 drivers keep showing "out of paper" when trying to print.</p>
<p>Any ideas how to set this one up?</p>
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15383 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T16:27:23.347 | 4 | 4493 | <p>Lately my computer is freezing a lot when I do the <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Tab</kbd> combination in order to change window focus.</p>
<p>I don't have Compiz or anything like that. What could be causing the system to lock up like this?</p>
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15389 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T18:45:30.243 | 8 | 1578 | <p>I have several nautilus bookmarks pointing to SSH servers, so that I can easily access them. Out of nowhere this doesn't work anymore. When I open a bookmark or enter <code>ssh://user@server</code> in the location bar, Nautilus completely freezes and doesn't recover (edit: same with sftp://). I can kill Nautilus and... | 1736 | 1736 | 2010-12-06T22:45:54.937 | 2012-03-10T22:22:53.920 | Nautilus freezes when connecting to SSH server | [
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15390 | 1 | 15398 | 2010-11-29T18:57:10.283 | 4 | 1759 | <p>Every time I use the CLI to install something with aptitude I get this output: </p>
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warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 60509 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number
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15392 | 1 | 15394 | 2010-11-29T19:06:40.213 | 7 | 1752 | <p>I have a Mac at home, and run Ubuntu at work. I'd like to be able to connect to my Mac in a similar way to how I had when I worked on a Mac. I have MobileMe so I used Back to My Mac (Apple's version to dynamic DNS) to connect and Screen Sharing (VNC) to access the screen.</p>
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15397 | 1 | 15413 | 2010-11-29T19:29:42.377 | 1 | 896 | <p>I have a universal remote that I would like to use to control my Ubuntu box setup using boxee.</p>
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15405 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T20:41:17.577 | 2 | 266 | <p>I'm running stock OpenJDK on Ubuntu 10.10 and webCT in firefox loads very slowly. I haven't found anyone else complaining about this so, I'm wondering how to go about debugging this. Anyone else have this problem?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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15406 | 1 | 15589 | 2010-11-29T20:53:30.167 | 2 | 868 | <p>This is on an HP G-61 laptop. Any tips on how to fix the problem? Maverick, but the same problem was there in Lucid ... </p>
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15408 | 1 | 15410 | 2010-11-29T21:39:39.160 | 34 | 20787 | <p>When searching through Synaptic for flash player I always see the options to use "flashplugin-installer" or "flashplugin-nonfree" or "adobe-flashplugin". Is there a reason to use one over the other? </p>
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15415 | 1 | 15464 | 2010-11-29T23:03:33.630 | 5 | 150 | <p>I'm considering delivering online art tutorials and was thinking of using Lernid when I noticed that it's specifically for Ubuntu-run/related events. Is there any desktop software similar to it?</p>
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15416 | 1 | 15417 | 2010-11-29T23:21:11.283 | 0 | 57 | <p>well i encountered a problem that i described in this question:
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13538/problem-with-permissions-after-upgrading">Problem with permissions after upgrading</a>
and while speaking with my friend about it he mentioned some kind of protocol that can take
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15418 | 1 | 15434 | 2010-11-29T23:24:55.290 | 28 | 24616 | <p>or any other program while i'm at it, ubuntu built-in utilities are nice but there are better.</p>
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15419 | 1 | null | 2010-11-29T23:28:04.587 | 45 | 84536 | <p>For a task of mine I need to list all the files in a tree (a directory, all its subdirs, all subdirs of those, etc.).</p>
<p>I'd prefer to see them in Nautilus or Krusader, but a command-line solution is interesting as well (in this case I will need files full names, sizes and modification times to be listed).</p>
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15420 | 1 | 15432 | 2010-11-29T23:36:01.010 | 1 | 93 | <p>I've tried compiling an adventure game sdk called OpenSludge (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensludge/" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensludge/</a>).
I can compile everything okay include <a href="http://kcat.strangesoft.net/alure.html" rel="nofollow">libalure</a> through git (openal l... | 2767 | null | null | 2010-11-30T01:49:53.620 | Issue with compiling OpenSludge | [
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15425 | 1 | 26864 | 2010-11-30T00:09:30.993 | 92 | 396995 | <p>Error message:</p>
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<p>I got this error while trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 from a bootable USB stick on to Asus X64J series laptop. After getting this error the installation fails to start.</p>
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15426 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T00:14:47.327 | 3 | 2125 | <p>I'm in the market for a new laptop, and portability is important since I really only use it when I'm travelling to and from work - primarily for programming.</p>
<p>I've been searching high and low for something like this:</p>
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<li>less than 2kg</li>
<li>hopefully Intel i5 (but negotiable)</li>
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15428 | 1 | 15430 | 2010-11-30T00:33:50.017 | 12 | 3972 | <p>I've been trying to get my ubuntu restart without having to edit the sudoers.
This has been possible before (in lucid I think) using a dbus command:</p>
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15433 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T02:12:48.520 | 1173 | 3633151 | <p>I get this error when trying to use <code>apt-get</code>:</p>
<pre><code>E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?
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<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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15437 | 1 | 15441 | 2010-11-30T02:24:11.353 | 16 | 48875 | <p>Sometimes when my terminal freezes up and it will not let me type. I can not identify any causes, nor how to diagnose. Any suggestions?</p>
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15439 | 1 | 21631 | 2010-11-30T02:57:16.890 | 5 | 287 | <p>I have a Sony VPCW218AG netbook that I've dual-booted with Ubuntu 10.10. Unlike the preinstalled Windows 7, Ubuntu will not reboot on this computer. Rebooting from Gnome, using the <code>reboot</code> command and SysRq+REISUB all don't work; they end hanging with a blank screen.</p>
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15442 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T03:39:05.667 | 4 | 6838 | <p>Apple has a very slick tool, called "Remote.app" that allows you to control music playback on a PC running iTunes, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gY_ZyeLhYo" rel="nofollow">see</a>. </p>
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15447 | 1 | 15449 | 2010-11-30T05:07:00.017 | 21 | 61537 | <p>I edited a file in /etc/ that I want to save, but forgot to open it using sudo. I remember there was a command to save such a file in vi, and want to know if there is any such way to do it in nano?</p>
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15448 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T05:14:28.237 | 18 | 700 | <p>I would like to use Ubuntu One on all of my computers, but I don't want all of the files to be synced with every computer. Some of my computers don't have a big enough hard drive to sync everything. I would like to have access to the files in the cloud, without having everything stored on my hard drive. Is this a... | 6697 | 169736 | 2014-02-23T00:06:14.387 | 2014-02-23T00:06:14.387 | Is it possible to store files on Ubuntu One without syncing them to a (or every) computer? | [
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15452 | 1 | 15453 | 2010-11-30T06:20:52.703 | 112 | 157345 | <p>I use the <code>dpkg -l</code> command to find out what version of a package I have installed. For example:</p>
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15456 | 1 | 15991 | 2010-11-30T07:20:29.913 | 1 | 1335 | <p>I have some problems to start Open Office on Ubuntu 10.10. I've tried to start it by menu and by terminal (oowriter). Both ways are not working.</p>
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15457 | 1 | 15555 | 2010-11-30T07:27:58.980 | 2 | 520 | <p>My ubuntu is 10.04. The top and bottom gnome-panel suddenly become transparent. However mouse click the position of menu, the Application menu could be shown.</p>
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15467 | 1 | 15830 | 2010-11-30T08:41:01.257 | 2 | 554 | <p>Alsa wasn't functioning well on my laptop. The open source OSS sound system also failed to install. So I installed the closed source version of OSS and it is working fine. But the volume indicator applet in the system tray disappeared after installing OSS. The sound manager in <code>System -> Preferences</code> i... | 2968 | null | null | 2010-12-02T14:04:44.187 | Indicator applet and sound manager for OSS sound system | [
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15470 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T09:00:03.937 | 9 | 6600 | <p>I have created a usb bootup stick for 10.10, and reduced the timeout to 0 sec... but after it boots up it shows two options either to install or try ubuntu... I want to avoid this screen and directly go to the tryout mode...</p>
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15471 | 1 | 21196 | 2010-11-30T09:03:21.783 | 5 | 2118 | <p>I am trying to enable compiz on my laptop via Desktop Effects but it does not allow it. I modified the xorg.conf file as on the compiz wiki but still no luck.</p>
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15473 | 1 | 15491 | 2010-11-30T09:39:12.737 | 7 | 10129 | <p>I'm looking for a good audio-video encoder which can utilize all cores of a multi-core CPU. </p>
<p>I've tried <code>mencoder</code>, but I can't see a "multi-core" option, and it appears to be using only one core at any given moment. </p>
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15474 | 1 | 15571 | 2010-11-30T09:50:01.180 | 4 | 246 | <p>I have been using Ubuntu One for awhile and I noticed that it is a bit sluggish when it comes to updating the documents in the Ubuntu One folder. I have linked both, my laptop and desktop with Ubuntu One. Why does this situation occur? </p>
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15475 | 1 | 15481 | 2010-11-30T09:58:39.757 | 6 | 2374 | <p>Is there some application for creating database data model diagrams that is able to generate SQL expressions which will create the database schema?</p>
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15479 | 1 | 15480 | 2010-11-30T10:18:38.367 | 5 | 7879 | <p>The default music player does not play .wav files. Please help me.</p>
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15484 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T10:29:02.163 | 6 | 1037 | <p>I am getting the following error message when the update manager runs:</p>
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15496 | 1 | 15500 | 2010-11-30T12:30:05.193 | 13 | 1007 | <p>I'm supposed to give an introduction to using the shell (i.e. bash) to total beginners. Which is the most basic/useful stuff I can teach someone within 1 1/2 hours without demanding too much?</p>
<p>Here are some point I thought up:</p>
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<li>Where Am I (pwd)</li>
<li>Change Directories (cd, cd .., cd -)</li>
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15497 | 1 | 15579 | 2010-11-30T12:32:35.907 | 31 | 41555 | <p>At each reboot, PulseAudio sets a sink (in my case, "HDMI Audio Output") as the default.</p>
<p>So, at each reboot, I don't hear any sound, and need to reconfigure the default sink each time to "Analog Output".</p>
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15498 | 1 | 15505 | 2010-11-30T12:38:42.473 | 4 | 27043 | <p>I've followed the ubuntu help docs for <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo#NFSv4%20server" rel="nofollow noreferrer">setting up NFSv4 on a server</a> running Ubuntu 10.4LTS and now I'm trying to get Autofs (on ubuntu 10.10) to mount the exports, following <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/co... | 254 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:17.900 | 2011-02-12T20:04:54.737 | How to setup Automount/Autofs | [
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15507 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T13:23:05.980 | 5 | 1088 | <p>I need a solution for Dropbox, i would like to put in Indicator Applet! what the best solution? Tks!</p>
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15515 | 1 | 18039 | 2010-11-30T14:14:18.547 | 21 | 114582 | <p>I am unable to boot Ubuntu 10.04, with the built in boot shell giving out this error: </p>
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15518 | 1 | 15519 | 2010-11-30T14:21:35.767 | 18 | 30367 | <p>Can someone please explain how I can install <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/wine1.3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wine</a><a href="http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/wine1.3" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://hostmar.co/software-small" alt="Install wine"></a> in the following ways?</p>
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15520 | 1 | 372616 | 2010-11-30T14:24:53.533 | 491 | 668172 | <p>I would like closing the laptop lid to be a no-op. How can I do that?</p>
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15526 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T14:34:24.323 | 9 | 24528 | <p>I usually start a download before I go to school. <br/>
Which command should I use to automatically make the necessary saves and turn off the computer after a particular task has been completed? <br/>
(Say, after installing the updates, or after downloading a large file.)</p>
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15530 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T14:47:57.190 | 1 | 1621 | <p>If I want to view a PNG file in the VLC Player I get the error message:</p>
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15537 | 1 | 15543 | 2010-11-30T15:24:43.163 | 3 | 2073 | <p>I'm trying to install the Lexmark X1290 printer on a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 system. I previously had this printer working flawlessly on a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04. </p>
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15538 | 1 | 15545 | 2010-11-30T15:27:01.023 | 12 | 556 | <p>This question is going to be little incomplete but I am sure you will guess what my problem is. So 2 days back When I restarted my machine I got 7 options on the Boot Screen instead of 5. Earlier Windows was the 5th Option (I made it default), but now some Memory test is the 5th option (Being Defaulted). How did it ... | 4627 | 4776 | 2010-11-30T15:40:21.720 | 2010-12-14T12:39:09.400 | Why is my boot menu getting longer? | [
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15549 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T16:02:13.003 | 5 | 2112 | <p>I have a bi Xeon machine with Ubuntu 10.10 and a Nvidia GTX 480 graphic card on it and I'd like to use OpenCL on the CPU and the GPU.</p>
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15551 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T16:09:32.097 | 101 | 630984 | <p>How can I remove the wine folder and all the applications in that folder?</p>
<p>I've tried via synaptic but it keeps showing up in the application menu.</p>
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15558 | 1 | 15646 | 2010-11-30T16:50:40.517 | 2 | 15014 | <p>Hej</p>
<p>When I close my lid on my Lenovo SL500 laptop with in-built webcam, my computer goes on standby. When I start up again the webcam light turns on - for no reason.</p>
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15559 | 1 | 15562 | 2010-11-30T16:55:34.333 | 2 | 286 | <p>I need an alternative to Skype (I know of ekiga, but there is a problem in that anyone can join your ekiga room, and the rooms are not persistent as far as I know. If I am wrong, please let me know in a commment or answer, I'd be happy to be wrong (very happy)). IRC is fine too, but I would need instructions on how ... | 1992 | 44179 | 2014-01-08T23:31:53.797 | 2014-01-08T23:31:53.797 | What chat clients (that work on linux) support creating rooms? | [
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15563 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T17:29:11.497 | 2 | 899 | <p>Greetings,</p>
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15564 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T17:38:54.717 | 6 | 1887 | <p>I have been told that Ubuntu comes with the firewall UFW. Is this true? Is there a GUI for it? If so, what is its name and where do I download? </p>
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15569 | 1 | 15574 | 2010-11-30T17:59:45.653 | 11 | 5041 | <p>When I run Update Manager I get this error:</p>
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15570 | 1 | 15643 | 2010-11-30T18:02:19.800 | 29 | 110867 | <p>I have a USB scale, a USB HID. Currently, when it is plugged in, the permissions only allow the superuser to access it. How can I configure udev to let anybody access this device? I have the vendor and product IDs, but I would like to match it based on the HID type instead.</p>
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15572 | 1 | 42826 | 2010-11-30T18:11:15.843 | 3 | 1133 | <p>I read on Wikipedia that it uses libpurple, but I can't figure out how to connect to other services (like jabber for example). Am I missing something or is the feature just not there anymore?</p>
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"body": "<p>Qutecom requires you to be signed into your SIP account before you can connnect to other services (The abiltity to use it to chat with other services is a secondary feature).</p>\n",
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15573 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T18:13:13.107 | 5 | 578 | <p>I can mount the Windows partition in my Ubuntu installation but I don't seem to be able to create or paste files in to the mounted partition. I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?</p>
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15580 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T18:48:18.913 | 20 | 45184 | <p>Installed a new Ubuntu 10.04 server and logging in as root I installed haproxy using apt-get.</p>
<p>I can run haproxy directly as a daemon but when I do <code>/etc/init.d/haproxy start</code> nothing happens.. not even an error message.</p>
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"body": "<p>Edit <code>/etc/default/haproxy</code> and make sure it has a line that says <code>ENABLED=1</code> in it.</p>\n\n<p>The default is ENABLED=0. This is done because haproxy has no sane default configuration, so you need to first configure it, then enable it.</p>\n",
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15581 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T18:50:04.967 | 5 | 299 | <p>I want to have applications running (like deluge) in admin account even if admin account is not active and guest or family account is in use.</p>
<p>Some times family account is in use and pc is restarted for any reason so admin app won't start on the background.</p>
<p>Is there a ways to make this possible?</p>
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"body": "<p>This website has some nice articles on setting up a media server, one of which is for a deluge daemon:\n<a href=\"http://havetheknowhow.com/Install-the-software/Install-Deluge-Headless.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://havetheknowhow.com/Install-the-software/Install-Deluge-Headl... | null | null | null | null | tony r |
15584 | 1 | 15586 | 2010-11-30T19:05:33.260 | 3 | 586 | <p>I read up on the process here and came up with this script:</p>
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15591 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T21:18:16.683 | 8 | 2536 | <p>I need a dead simple (read dumbies) guide to setting an Ubuntu 10.10 machine up as a router. </p>
<p>Here's the scenario:</p>
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15593 | 1 | null | 2010-11-30T21:26:32.807 | 4 | 1004 | <p>Is it possible to downgrade my iPod touch firmware (from 4.2 to 4.0) from Ubuntu?</p>
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"body": "<p>I believe it's possible but it's hard. There's a tutorial on how to restore iPod firmware on the rockbox site: <a href=\"http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodManualRestore\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodManualRestore</a></p>\n",
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15603 | 1 | 15606 | 2010-11-30T23:26:59.047 | 7 | 848 | <p>The Synapse launcher was <a href="http://mhr3.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-synapse-acetylcholine.html">recently released</a>, offering the following features:</p>
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<li>Search and open apps and items.</li>
<li>Run any command.</li>
<li>Directory search - allows opening of commonly used directories</li>
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